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CMJ (9/4/00, p.23) - "...Near-classic-sounding soul-pop ditties....Talent this effortless is a rarity..."12.31457
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"It isn't every day that you get to see Jerry Lee Lewis dueting with Van Morrison..."USA Today11.04552
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4 stars out of 5 -- "Director Pete McCormack picks out choice archive footage of Bruce Lee....He even finds surprises in this familiar story..."Total Film9.441992
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Ranked #3 in Entertainment Weekly's "10 Best Video Releases of 1995" -- "...A head-spinning crash course..." Entertainment Weekly "...Little Richard shows up, Bruce Springsteen shows up, and so do Fabian, Salt-N-Pepa, Mick and Keith, Chrissie Hynde and 197 more..." USA Today9.2223
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Rolling Stone (p.74) - 3 stars out of 5 - "His mix of acoustic guitar and R&B-bred singing is more reminiscent of Bill Withers or Tracy Chapman."Entertainment Weekly (No. 809, p.73) - "[T]his Philly troubadour crafts concise, soulful songs with a warm palette of acoustic colors..." - Grade: B+Uncut (p.97) - 3 stars out of 5 - "He's got a sly easy-on-the-ear voice that lies somewhere between Seal and James Taylor..."Vibe (p.168) - "[S]tout in musicianship yet delicate in tone."Dirty Linen (p.61) - "He utilizes his falsetto quivering voice in a very effective manner and will sometimes go into a scat style that has tinges of a jazz singer's delivery."8.907196
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Q (8/00, p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Extraordinary....Dorsey sings with an almost child-like innocence....creating some of Southern soul's most sonorous moments..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.117) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] pushed things forward, pioneering the syncopated rhythms of New Orleans funk."8.886561
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Rolling Stone (8/20/98, p.110) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...Phillips continues to evoke an utterly unique world composed of American lore, biblical references, literary flair and stirring emotional honesy..."Entertainment Weekly (6/12/98, p.78) - "...Grant Lee Buffalo...exert more inspired song craft from the zone between pop, roots rock, and art..."- Rating: B+Musician (7/98, p.91) - "Grant Lee Buffalo's music is for people who want it both ways: to dance and to dream....Phillips writes slinky, sensual, Beatlesque melodies that slip between major and minor, eluding resolution..."8.707666
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Rolling Stone (6/13/96, p.78) - 3 Stars - Good - "...[evokes] the simple pleasures of small-town America, finding metaphors for life and relationships in a summer rainstorm...and a beaten-up old easy chair. But these romantic visions are juxtaposed against perverted ideals..."Entertainment Weekly (6/7/96, p.60) - "...This, the band's third effort, has its share of poignant melodies, but the feeling of enervation it induces is deadly." - Rating: B-Q (7/96, p.110) - 3 Stars - Good - "...A more intensely rendered work than anything they've offered before, it remains rooted in the finely honed languid country of their previous albums....Grant Lee Phillip's lyrical twists have now reached levels of Dylan-like complexity..."8.651611
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Dirty Linen (p.66) - "With an orchestra following his lead-guitar riffs, there's a real jazzy feel to the arrangements and song structures."8.632443
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"Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic concert to take place."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] gentle, anecdotal comedy that has oodles of nostalgic charm, as the locals of the Catskills find themselves swept up in an event whose transformative power changed a generation."Box Office 3 stars out of 4 -- "This is a comedy with some sweet interludes....TAKING WOODSTOCK has the freshness of something being created, not remembered."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place....The filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition..."Los Angeles Times "It's as adventurous a film as Lee has ever made, utilizing split-screens, zoom lenses, kinetic slides in the mud, astonishingly long DeMillian takes featuring hundreds of stalled cars and a cast of thousands..."Movieline "Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly Lee makes a series of fascinating choices in TAKING WOODSTOCK, starting with the decision not to film Woodstock, the concert....Hes managed to make a moving that, for all its sweetness, is surprisingly subversive.Washington Post 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lee shows the experience from the outskirts...we see Woodstock as most attendees saw it: down among the mud and chaos...'Uncut7.475318
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"Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic concert to take place."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] gentle, anecdotal comedy that has oodles of nostalgic charm, as the locals of the Catskills find themselves swept up in an event whose transformative power changed a generation."Box Office 3 stars out of 4 -- "This is a comedy with some sweet interludes....TAKING WOODSTOCK has the freshness of something being created, not remembered."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place....The filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition..."Los Angeles Times "It's as adventurous a film as Lee has ever made, utilizing split-screens, zoom lenses, kinetic slides in the mud, astonishingly long DeMillian takes featuring hundreds of stalled cars and a cast of thousands..."Movieline "Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly Lee makes a series of fascinating choices in TAKING WOODSTOCK, starting with the decision not to film Woodstock, the concert....Hes managed to make a moving that, for all its sweetness, is surprisingly subversive.Washington Post 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lee shows the experience from the outskirts...we see Woodstock as most attendees saw it: down among the mud and chaos...'Uncut7.475318
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"...Inspired....Wickedly irreverent sense of visual comedy..." Premiere "...A terrifically entertaining and incisively acted film of Jane Austen's first novel....Thompson gives a marvelous performance to match the elegant fire of her writing..." Rolling Stone "...Enjoyable..." Sight and Sound "...Lushly engaging....Luminously brings to life Austen's vision..." -- Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly "...Witty and rollicking....Rickman is unexpectedly moving....Jones quietly impresses....Francois is utterly winning..." Variety "...Proof to any doubters of the resilience and continuing emotional power of an author who began writing 200 years ago..." Los Angeles Times7.392973
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"...[THE EDGE] exhibits a restrained literateness that's quite effective..." Box Office "...THE EDGE boasts some awesome effects..." Sight and Sound "...Great bear. Great Hopkins... USA Today "...A barbed, great-looking adventure film written cannily by David Mamet and directed with verve and fury by Lee Tamahori..." New York Times "...The well-matched actors grab their parts with disciplined ferocity. Baldwin does his best work in a long time....And Hopkins creates one of his most satisfying, complex characters..." Entertainment Weekly "...THE EDGE's fusion of Mametspeak with a true life adventure remains brawny entertainment..."Los Angeles Times "...It's subtly funny in the way it toys with the cliches of the genre....The movie contains glorious scenery..." Chicago Sun-Times "Hopkins does fine work as a billionaire stranded in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with a smarmy photographer, played by Alec Baldwin....THE EDGE is an interesting footnote in the Mamet canon..." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 4 stars out of 4 -- "Brilliantly written by David Mamet, and beautifully directed by Lee Tamahori, it's thought-provoking, quotable, and worthy of endless analysis."Premiere7.335694
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"...[THE EDGE] exhibits a restrained literateness that's quite effective..." Box Office "...THE EDGE boasts some awesome effects..." Sight and Sound "...Great bear. Great Hopkins... USA Today "...A barbed, great-looking adventure film written cannily by David Mamet and directed with verve and fury by Lee Tamahori..." New York Times "...The well-matched actors grab their parts with disciplined ferocity. Baldwin does his best work in a long time....And Hopkins creates one of his most satisfying, complex characters..." Entertainment Weekly "...THE EDGE's fusion of Mametspeak with a true life adventure remains brawny entertainment..."Los Angeles Times "...It's subtly funny in the way it toys with the cliches of the genre....The movie contains glorious scenery..." Chicago Sun-Times "Hopkins does fine work as a billionaire stranded in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with a smarmy photographer, played by Alec Baldwin....THE EDGE is an interesting footnote in the Mamet canon..." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 4 stars out of 4 -- "Brilliantly written by David Mamet, and beautifully directed by Lee Tamahori, it's thought-provoking, quotable, and worthy of endless analysis."Premiere7.335693
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Living Blues (11-12/94, p.73) - "...equally at ease in the soul and blues idioms...[LEE] has been too seldom recorded....There are no real letdowns--Lee brings the same intensity to everything he does..."7.320762
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"...Visual energy and emotional depth..." Premiere "...[This] unambiguously emotional drama will likely touch a nerve with many who see it..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...Fire and substance too..." -- Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly "...[A] compelling first feature..." Film Comment "...Brutally effective....This film's stars are frighteningly credible....[Ms. Owen] radiates a physical vitality..." New York Times "...Quick-fire editing and burnished visuals give the film a rich appearance..." Sight and Sound7.278072
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"[A] thriller that manages to excite and unnerve....[Mr. Cooper] rouses our curiosity but never solicits our pity. It's enough that he and Mr. Ray make this monster human."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "[A]n edge-of-the-seat thriller....BREACH is a compelling, intelligent drama."USA Today "[A] true-life tale of duplicity gone secretly insane..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[The director] raises the stakes to life and death, and proves himself a filmmaker of uncommon talent and ambition."Rolling Stone "BREACH absorbingly zeroes in on how the FBI nailed the most damaging turncoat in American history..."Variety "[Cooper is a] venerable character actor who inhabits the man completely."Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "Chris Cooper and Ryan Philippe are perfectly cast as the enigmatic, unlikely traitor and his secretive clerk..."Ultimate DVD 4 stars out of 5 -- "[At the centre of it is a chilling performance from Cooper as a hunted, lonely man, staring down the barrel of his conscience."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's worth catching for Cooper's performance, while its fact-based tale of treachery will strike a chord in today's climate of suspicion."Total Film "BREACH is an intelligent, superior entertainment....Engrossing..."Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "There's good work from Laura Linney....The film will be remembered for giving Chris Cooper another top-flight role..."Empire7.25888
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"[A] thriller that manages to excite and unnerve....[Mr. Cooper] rouses our curiosity but never solicits our pity. It's enough that he and Mr. Ray make this monster human."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "[A]n edge-of-the-seat thriller....BREACH is a compelling, intelligent drama."USA Today "[A] true-life tale of duplicity gone secretly insane..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[The director] raises the stakes to life and death, and proves himself a filmmaker of uncommon talent and ambition."Rolling Stone "BREACH absorbingly zeroes in on how the FBI nailed the most damaging turncoat in American history..."Variety "[Cooper is a] venerable character actor who inhabits the man completely."Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "Chris Cooper and Ryan Philippe are perfectly cast as the enigmatic, unlikely traitor and his secretive clerk..."Ultimate DVD 4 stars out of 5 -- "[At the centre of it is a chilling performance from Cooper as a hunted, lonely man, staring down the barrel of his conscience."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's worth catching for Cooper's performance, while its fact-based tale of treachery will strike a chord in today's climate of suspicion."Total Film "BREACH is an intelligent, superior entertainment....Engrossing..."Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "There's good work from Laura Linney....The film will be remembered for giving Chris Cooper another top-flight role..."Empire7.25888
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Uncut (magazine) (p.80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[This] features blues titans beside doo wop angels, superior dance crazes and one indefatigable rhythm machine."7.224907
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"If you want to hear juicy inside tales of the scams devised by Lee Atwater, the right-wing visionary of media-age dirty tricks, you'll find loads of them in BOOGIE MAN." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[I]t's a hugely entertaining, efficiently crafted documentary about a ruthless, if undeniably clever, American political force....Director-cinematographer-editor Stefan Forbes rivetingly, often chillingly, frames our country's not-so-distant political past while informing its polarized present."Los Angeles Times "BOOGIE MAN: THE LEE ATWATER STORY, a remarkable documentary directed by Stefan Forbes, uses interviews with Atwater's targets and, especially, his old comrades, to paint a remarkable portrait of Atwater..."Chicago Sun-Times6.97919
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Q (p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e here covers 11 songs that run the gamut from wrist-slitting to darkly humorous. All are powerfully intimate."Mojo (Publisher) (p.103) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[B]ittersweet Americana, dusty-voiced, with a restrained, mostly acoustic backing."6.891399
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